WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
EXECUTIVE BOARD EB115/5 Corr.1
115th Session 7 January 2005
Provisional agenda item 4.2
Achievement of the health-related Millennium Development Goals: status report
CORRIGENDUM
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ANNEX
Health in the Millennium Development Goals
Millennium Development Goals, targets and indicators related to health
Health tTargets Health iIndicators
GOAL 1: ERADICATE EXTREME POVERTY AND HUNGER
Target 1 Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than one dollar a day Target 2 Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of
people who suffer from hunger
4. Prevalence of underweight children under five years of age 5. Proportion of population below minimum level of dietary energy consumption
GOAL 2: ACHIEVE UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION
Target 3 Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling
GOAL 3: PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY AND EMPOWER WOMEN
Target 4 Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and at all levels of education no later than 2015
GOAL 4: REDUCE CHILD MORTALITY
Target 5 Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate
13. Under-five mortality rate 14. Infant mortality rate
15. Proportion of one-year-old children immunized against measles
GOAL 5: IMPROVE MATERNAL HEALTH
Target 6 Reduce by three-quarters, between 1990 and 2015,
the maternal mortality ratio 16. Maternal mortality ratio
17. Proportion of births attended by skilled health personnel GOAL 6: COMBAT HIV/AIDS, MALARIA AND OTHER DISEASES
Target 7 Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
18. HIV prevalence among pregnant women aged 15-24 years 19. Condom use rate of the contraceptive prevalence rate 20. Ratio of school attendance of orphans to school attendance
or orphans to school attendance of non-orphans aged 10-14 years
Target 8 Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the
incidence of malaria and other major diseases 21. Prevalence and death rates associated with malaria 22. Proportion of population in malaria-risk areas using
effective malaria prevention and treatment measures 23. Prevalence and death rates associated with tuberculosis 24. Proportion of tuberculosis cases detected and cured under
DOTS (dDirectly oObserved tTreatment sShort-course) GOAL 7: ENSURE ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
Target 9 Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources
29. Proportion of population using solid fuels
Target 10 Halve by 2015 the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking-water and sanitation
30. Proportion of population with sustainable access to an improved water source, urban and rural
Target 11 By 2020 to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers
31. Proportion of population with access to improved sanitation, urban and rural
GOAL 8: DEVELOP A GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR DEVELOPMENT
Target 12 Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system Target 13 Address the special needs of the least developed countries
Target 14 Address the special needs of landlocked countries and small island developing states
Target 15 Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries through national and international measures in order to make debt sustainable in the long term
Target 16 In cooperation with developing countries, develop and implement strategies for decent and productive work for youth Target 17 In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies,
provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries
46. Proportion of population with access to affordable essential drugs on a sustainable basis
Target 18 In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications
Sources: “Implementation of the United Nations Millennium Declaration”, Report of the Secretary-General, A/57/270 (31 July 2002), first annual report based on the ”Road map towards the implementation of the United Nations Millennium Declaration”, Report of the Secretary-General, A/56/326 (6 September 2001); United Nations Statistics Division, Millennium Indicators Database, verified in July 2004; World Health Organization, Department of MDGs, Health and Development Policy (HDP).
